Como Inn favorite shared by chef

Como Inn's chicken cacciatore

Como Inn's chicken cacciatore

Monica Kass Rogers, Special to the Tribune

It's a cold, wet, weekday afternoon, and I'm sitting down with Augie Sanchez, who for 44 years was chef of Como Inn, the Marchetti family restaurant that operated on Milwaukee Avenue from 1924 until it closed in 2001.

"Let me see," he begins, reaching back into the archive he keeps in his head, "you fry up some chicken ... "

And so it goes. He dictates the recipes in a loose, "pinch of this, a little of that" fashion. But with time, testing and input from Sanchez's son, Ricky, now head chef at Galleria Marchetti, we conjured this rendition of Como Inn's chicken cacciatore that was requested by reader Susie Kessler of Deerfield.